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Chus Lampreave

Born: 11th Dec 1930 Madrid, Spain - Died 4th Apr 2016
Dept: Acting
María Jesús Lampreave Pérez (11 December 1930 – 4 April 2016), known as Chus Lampreave, was a Spanish actress. Born in Madrid, she began appearing in films in 1958, but she became internationally known thanks to her roles in films by Pedro Almodóvar, where she played old ladies with maternal or pastoral traits. She died in Almería in 2016 at the age of 85.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 73
Film: 66 (90%)
Television: 7 (10%)
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Filmography

Original title: Yo, presidenta
2015
Spain's recent election have alarmed europe. It's the second time blank votes win, plunging the country into chaos. The European Union decides to elec ... view
Character:
Torrente 5: Operation Eurovegas Action, Comedy, Crime
Original title: Torrente 5: Operación Eurovegas
2014
Crooked cop Torrente gets out of jail in the year 2018 to find a different Spain from the one he knew. ... view
Character:
Reme
Fenómenos Comedy
Nov 2012 (first aired)
Character:
Amelia (9 ep.)
Original title: El artista y la modelo
2012
In occupied France in summer 1943, a world-weary famous sculptor finds the desire to work again with the arrival of a beautiful young Spanish refugee. ... view
Character:
María
Broken Embraces Drama, Romance, Thriller
Original title: Los abrazos rotos
2009
Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, ... view
Character:
Concierge
Original title: Fuera de carta
2008
Maxi thinks his life is perfect. He is a famous cook who owns a successful restaurant in Chueca and is living his life as a gay man without much compl ... view
Character:
Celia
Volver Comedy, Drama, Romance
2006
Three generations of women deal with family secrets while surviving the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition, lies and even death. ... view
Character:
Aunt Paula
2005
Abandoned by her husband, a woman takes to the streets in search of money to feed her children. (Promotional short for the film What Have I Done to De ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage)
Say I Do Comedy
Original title: Di que sí
2004
An unlikely couple fake a relationship to win a TV game show prize. Wannabe actress Estrella dreams of becoming a hostess on a romance reality-TV show ... view
Character:
Madre de Víctor
Original title: Atraco a las 3… y media
2003
A German bank buys a small Spanish entity and announces to its employees that it will pre-retire them on January 1st. The cashier Galindo proposes his ... view
Character:
Doña Vicenta
El florido pensil Comedy, Drama
2002
"El Florido Pensil" is a humorous reflection of the education of several generations of Spaniards from the 1940s to the 1960s. Based on the book of th ... view
Character:
Doña Pepa
Talk to Her Drama, Romance
Original title: Hable con ella
2002
Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas. ... view
Character:
Concierge
Torrente 2: Mission in Marbella Action, Comedy, Crime
Original title: Torrente 2: Misión en Marbella
2001
For this second film in the cult comedy series Torrente takes our fat police officer from Madrid to Marbella in Spain to investigate a villain’s plo ... view
Character:
Reme
Original title: Una pareja perfecta
1998
Forty-two-year-old Lorenzo finds himself out of work. Through an ad placed in the local newspaper, he gets a job as a helping hand for an aging homose ... view
Character:
Original title: Torrente: El Brazo Tonto De La Ley
1998
A former policeman enlists his nerdy friend to help bust drug traffickers moving heroin through a Chinese restaurant. ... view
Character:
Reme
Mátame mucho Comedy
1998
Character:
Josefa
Hermanas Comedy, Family
Feb 1998 (first aired)
Character:
Madre Fundadora (13 ep.)
Original title: Así en el Cielo como en la Tierra
1995
Matacanes dies and goes to heaven just to discover that it was not as he expected, and everyone there is revolutionized lately. Peter explains that Go ... view
Character:
Doña Asunción
The Flower of My Secret Drama, Romance
Original title: La flor de mi secreto
1995
Middle-aged romance author Leo writes under a pseudonym, since she despises her own work. At home, her husband, who works overseas, is distant both ph ... view
Character:
Madre de Leo
Original title: Siete mil días juntos
1995
Petra and Matthias are a bad marriage. He works as a janitor at the school of anatomy. Petra has a bitter and uncompromising character, so that their ... view
Character:
Sofia
Casque bleu Comedy
1994
Winegrower Patrick Ponsac comes close to ruining his marriage when he has an affair with another woman. By way of atonement, he takes his wife back to ... view
Character:
Alicia's Mother
Original title: Todos a la cárcel
1993
A prison in Valencia hosts an event recognizing political prisoners jailed during Franco’s reign. The reunion proves more raucous than the organizer ... view
Character:
Chus
Nov 1993 (first aired)
Character:
Doña Rosa (13 ep.)
Supernova Science Fiction, Comedy
1993
Count Nado, is in love with Fénix, an intergalactic singer. Unable to achieve it with traditional methods, the evil Nado kidnaps the scientist Avelin ... view
Character:
Avelina
Belle Époque Comedy, Drama, Romance
1992
In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo has ... view
Character:
Doña Asun
Sep 1990 (first aired)
Character:
Unknown/various (20 ep.)
1990
A man wakes up in a train to Malaga. A mysterious woman helps him get in time to his marriage, which is a few hours later. ... view
Character:
Original title: Yo soy el que tú buscas
1989
Natalia, a fashion model, is assaulted by a man one night, when she is returning from work. She decides to take revenge, and obsessively searches for ... view
Character:
Matilde
Original title: Bajarse al moro
1989
A girl who lives with her dealer cousin and her policeman boyfriend who is a policeman regularly transports drugs from Morocco for her cousin. As all ... view
Character:
Doña Antonia
Original title: Amanece, que no es poco
1989
Teodoro, a Spanish engineer working as a professor in the United States, returns to Spain to enjoy a sabbatical year. ... view
Character:
Álvarez
Character:
Self
Miss Caribe Comedy, Drama
1988
A woman's father dies in a Central American country and leaves her a bizarre inheritance: a ship which acts as a floating brothel under the appearance ... view
Character:
Doña Petra
Original title: Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios
1988
After being dumped by her lover, Pepa finds her life and the lives of those around her spiraling out of control in a deliciously chaotic series of eve ... view
Character:
Jehovah's Witness Goalkeeper
Original title: Espérame en el cielo
1988
Pepe Soriano plays a Madrid shopkeeper who is kidnapped by henchmen of Franco in this political comedy. After his kidnapping, he is forced to become t ... view
Character:
Emilia
Original title: Moros y cristianos
1987
A peculiar family, which owns a nougat factory, decides to set out on a trip to Madrid in order to advertise its products in a Food Fair. Besides the ... view
Character:
Antonia
Original title: El pecador impecable
1987
Honorio Sigüenza is a man in his forties who has always lived under the yoke of his possessive mother. When his mother dies, he undergoes a radical t ... view
Character:
Beni
Eulalia Drama
1987
Character:
Carmen
1987
Ana starts working as a Doctor in the S.T.I.U. (sexual transmission illnesses unit) at a Hospital. She begins meeting a lot of strange and bizarre cha ... view
Character:
Vecina
Year of Enlightment Drama, War
Original title: El año de las luces
1986
April, 1940. Manolo, 16 years old, and Jesus, who is just 8, are taken by their older brother Pepe, a lieutenant in the Army, to a sanatorium for chil ... view
Character:
Doña Tránsito
Matador Drama, Thriller
1986
A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other. ... view
Character:
Pilar
Lulú de noche Comedy, Drama, Thriller
1986
German, a young theater director, tries to organize a theater play about Lulu, a prostitute that was killed in London by Jack the ripper. While lookin ... view
Character:
Farmacéutica #2
Dec 1985 (first aired)
Set in a crumbling Spanish mansion, this gloriously comic and gothic story follows the fortunes of an innocent young priest as he enters a world of mo ... view
Character:
Bibiana (4 ep.)
Original title: Sé infiel y no mires con quién
1985
Pablo and Fernando, owners of a children's book publishing company about to go bankrupt, have managed through unorthodox means to contract the country ... view
Character:
Adela Mora
Pagina de Sucesos Drama, Crime
Oct 1985 (first aired)
Character:
Araceli (1 ep.)
The Chosen One Thriller
Original title: El elegido
1985
Federico is a cashier in a bank. He is bored with his life. But one day a body falls on his car. The suspected suicide victim is collected by a group ... view
Character:
Florita
Tatuaje Music, Comedy
1985
A short film starring Pedro Almodóvar and Marisa Paredes, parodying a 1940s torch song, the famous Spanish copla "Tatuaje". ... view
Character:
1985
It is the disastrous grades at the end of the school year that make several students from different places gather at the school to spend the whole sum ... view
Character:
Doña Aurelia
Original title: El jardín secreto
1984
A few days ago, Lucia (Assumpta Serna) receives anonymous letters in which he is forced to perform certain actions that she accepts without question. ... view
Character:
María
Original title: ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?
1984
A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her heads ... view
Character:
Abuela
Bajo en nicotina Drama, Thriller
1984
A film buff can't watch his videos in peace as he is disturbed by his clingy girlfriend and noisy neighbours. He will take drastic measures to get the ... view
Character:
Puri
Mar 1984 (first aired)
An account of the life of Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582), from her spiritual awakening to her final days, as she struggles to reform the Order of the Ca ... view
Character:
Criada (8 ep.)
Epilogue Drama
Original title: Epílogo
1984
The film tells the story of two writers in love with the same woman. For years, they have worked together. One day they separate. Ten years later and ... view
Character:
Flo-Flo
Dark Habits Comedy, Drama
Original title: Entre tinieblas
1983
After her drug pusher boyfriend overdoses on heroin, a cabaret singer finds refuge from the authorities in a convent for fallen women. ... view
Character:
Sor Rata de Callejón
Total Comedy
1983
"Total" opens the trilogy that close "Amanece que no es poco" and "Así en el Cielo como en la Tierra" Year 2598. Three days ago, the world has come t ... view
Character:
Álvarez
National III Comedy
Original title: Nacional III
1982
In order to solve economic problems, "Leguineche" family decide to move to France with their limited belongings. ... view
Character:
Viti
1981
With the help of drawings and comic strips. brings together short films, on children's themes, in which rights that children and adults should enjoy a ... view
Character:
Original title: Patrimonio nacional
1981
After the death of General Franco, the Leguineche family leaves their estate of Los Tejadillos, where they have remained for decades in voluntary exil ... view
Character:
Viti
1980
Manolo (Fernando Esteso) is a porn actor who no longer has any attraction towards women, having become "a decent man". But, of course, there is a horn ... view
Character:
Doña Gertrudis
Original title: La escopeta nacional
1978
A catalan manufacturer of intercoms travels to Madrid, accompanied by his mistress, to attend a hunt that he has organized. Its main purpose is to mix ... view
Character:
Viti
1977
Antonio and Teresa are a couple who live in a flat in San Sebastian. Ursula Michelena, an elderly woman over 70 years old, lives on the top floor. Urs ... view
Character:
Manoli
Character:
Rosalinda
El monosabio Drama
1977
Juanito, a peaceful fan of bullfighting, has become picador's assistant to see from the same arena the show in which he brags he is one of the protago ... view
Character:
Clara
Original title: Colorín, colorado
1976
Manoli and Fernando, a couple of communist ideas, want to live their love freely, fleeing from any bourgeois convention. At first, the couple rejects ... view
Character:
Aurora
Al fin solos, pero... Music, Comedy
1976
Character:
Chus (as María Jesús Lampreave)
Original title: El amor del capitán Brando
1974
During the last years of Franco's dictatorship, Fernando, an old republican exile, returns to his home in a small Castilian village and befriends Auro ... view
Character:
Mayor's Wife
My Dearest Senorita Drama, Comedy
Original title: Mi querida señorita
1972
A woman living in a small town discovers after fifty years that she is actually a man. Will she change her sex and suffer the reaction of a narrow-min ... view
Character:
Sobrina de Chus
1970
A prostitute promises to the Virgin Mary not to practice her trade for a year if she heals her sick child. ... view
Character:
1966
Léo and Claude, two penniless friends turned con artists, answer matrimonial classified ads to trap women. But one of the friends soon finds his own ... view
Character:
(scenes deleted)
The Executioner Comedy, Drama
Original title: El verdugo
1963
An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after ... view
Character:
Visiting Woman of the Work
La becerrada Comedy
1963
San Ginés de la Sierra is a small village lost in the mountains in southern Spain. It is known throughout the region for two peculiar characteristics ... view
Character:
Chus
Original title: El cochecito
1960
Don Anselmo, a retired old man, decides to buy a motorized disabled stroller since all his pensioner friends own one. His family strongly refuses him ... view
Character:
Yolanda Proharán
Original title: Se vende un tranvía
1959
This excellent short film written by the magnificent filmmaker duo of Luis García Berlanga and screenwriter Rafael Azcona was to be part of a series ... view
Character:
Marujita
Original title: El pisito
1959
Rodolfo and Petrita each live in separate quarters in dilapidated Madrid, while looking to have a little apartment (or "pisito", in Spanish dialect). ... view
Character:
Adelina - secretaria de Don Manuel (uncredited)